Exploring Water with Young Children Complete Set
Published on 30. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-933653-20-4 (ISBN)
Description
Water is all around us. In the third component of the Young Scientist Series, teachers learn how to guide children in deepening their understanding of liquids, and water, in particular. Teachers begin by preparing themselves and their classroom for investigations ranging from experimenting at the water table to exploring water in nature. Next, teachers hone their ability to guide children's open and focused explorations of water and its properties, and learn how to best observe, assess, and document learning. Four detailed chapters help children learn important science inquiry skills including questioning, investigating, discussing, and formulating ideas and theories.
The comprehensive trainer's guide and video makes it easy to get teachers started with the Exploring Water with Young Children curriculum. Six basic and eight advanced workshops guide teachers step by step through the curriculum, developing skills in inquiry-based teaching and science education. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions, as well as detailed charts, forms, and reproducible overheads for extended study and reflection. The full-color DVD presents eight real-life vignettes of the curriculum in action for observation, reflection, and discussion.
The Young Scientist Series gives you all the tools to do serious science in the preschool classroom, including both sample and reproducible charts and forms.
The comprehensive trainer's guide and video makes it easy to get teachers started with the Exploring Water with Young Children curriculum. Six basic and eight advanced workshops guide teachers step by step through the curriculum, developing skills in inquiry-based teaching and science education. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions, as well as detailed charts, forms, and reproducible overheads for extended study and reflection. The full-color DVD presents eight real-life vignettes of the curriculum in action for observation, reflection, and discussion.
The Young Scientist Series gives you all the tools to do serious science in the preschool classroom, including both sample and reproducible charts and forms.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
St Paul, MN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 paperbacks and DVD
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-933653-20-4 (9781933653204)
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Persons
Ingrid Chalufour is lead developer of Foundations of Science Literacy and senior curriculum developer at Language, Literacy, and Early Learning at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). She has decades of experience designing outstanding instructional materials for teachers who serve children birth to eight. Ingrid holds a master's degree from the University of Maine.
Karen Worth is a senior scientist at Education Development Center (EDC) and is a graduate level instructor in the early childhood education department at Wheelock College.
Karen Worth is a senior scientist at Education Development Center (EDC) and is a graduate level instructor in the early childhood education department at Wheelock College.